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1. 91.▲
   by perturbation 13y ago

   I used Sabayon for about 2-3 years on my laptop with no complaints. I mean, it broke a few times, but that was my own fault, and I was always able to 'unbreak' it using recovery images and usually due to proprietary modules (grrr
2. 92.▲
   by perturbation 13y ago

   I've never seen this before, it's great! Two that stood out for me: "1991 - Dutch programmer Guido van Rossum travels to Argentina for a mysterious operation. He returns with a large cranial scar, invents Python, is declared
3. 93.▲
   by perturbation 13y ago

   I, for one, am suspicious. Gwern's posting of old articles from his site (which are nonetheless articulate, intelligent, and interesting) makes me think that this is step 437 of a 21352 part plan that ends with him as Emperor of the M
4. 94.▲
   by perturbation 13y ago

   Have there been any black hat/white hat discussions of these sorts of techniques? I.e., how to detect intentional biases introduced into a dataset, faked lab data? Most of what I remember about this is from the book "Bad Science&
5. 95.▲
   by perturbation 13y ago

   But gotos don't add a layer to the... oh. Oh, I see.
6. 96.▲
   by perturbation 13y ago

   The central planning, linear programming-driven Soviet dream was explored in the excellent book "Red Plenty" by Francis Spufford. I would heavily recommend it. http://www.amazon.com/Red-Plenty-Francis-Spufford&#x2
7. 97.▲
   by perturbation 13y ago

   I was skeptical, but I found a lot more than I thought there would be. GTK+ & Javascript == https://wiki.gnome.org/Gjs Windows app store: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/
8. 98.▲
   by perturbation 13y ago

   I think it's over-criticized as a language, but I'm not going to be dishonest in describing what features I think it lacks or where I think it is actually, legitimately bad.
9. 99.▲
   by perturbation 13y ago

   Well it sure doesn't rhyme with 'Shmerner'.
10. 100.▲
    by perturbation 13y ago

    I appear to be an inferior version of you; you've described my job, I'm also familiar w/ MATLAB (loved the absolute pants off that language in class), python, and javascript, but I only have a B.S. in Physics. I also think t
11. 101.▲
    by perturbation 13y ago

    I'll second the above with a link to dlwicksell's node.js binding to M and the Intersystems version (Rob Tweed discussed the open source version by dlwicksell in the presentation): https://github.com/dlwicksell&#x2
12. 102.▲
    by perturbation 13y ago

    Every time they have an "X language is terrible" link, people slag off MUMPS. I program in a modern variant of MUMPS almost every day. It can be obfuscated as in the examples, but with proper programming practice (conventions